South Carolina has put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

In the statement detailing his final words, Bowman said he did not kill 21-year-old Kandee Martin. Martin was killed in 2001 and Bowman was convicted in Dorchester County in 2002.

South Carolina has executed their first death row prisoner this year, Marion Bowman Jr., who has been in prison since 2002 after being found guilty of killing a friend - though Bowman maintained he wa